Suvendrini Lena

Suvendrini Lena is a mother, daughter, sister, aunt and decolonization enthusiast, living in T’karonto. She is also a playwright and staff neurologist at Women’s College Hospital. She teaches/learns Neurology and Medicine and Humanities at the University of Toronto (Tkaronto). Her plays include The Enchanted Loom, on the Sri Lankan civil war (Cahoots/Factory Theatre), Here are the Fragments inspired by the writing Frantz Fanon (Theatre Centre) and Rubble inspired by the work of Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (Aluna Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille).

Suvendrini Lena is published by Playwrights Canada Press

Photo credit: Wade Hudson.